for a veteranss' event, drove through forests that were brown and dead. he came back and asked me, what's going on with the forests in montana? i said, bill, i've go dan, i've. dan's response was, sign me up as a cosponsor. he was always there to help. i remember one time in the cloakroom he was talking -- he was tell ago war story about after he had got his arm blown off. they were laying in stretchers in the 1940's -- which medicine has come a long way since then, remember -- they were laying on stretchers and he was talking about -- and there were many folks here, many had multiple limbs that were missing, and he said, there was a man of the cloth that was giving last-rites. and they came to dan and dan said, no i'm not going anywhere. and he stayed with us, thank goodness, and came to the u.s. senate, came to congress and then the you's snavment -- and then the u.s. senate. what a man, what an incredible man he was. he always saturat sat at our tat kacaucus lunch. and when he came in he referred to me as "big one" and then proceeded to lecture me as to why i needed to lose weight, if i was
